All the News that Fits 0
In the Raleigh News and Observer, Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., considers the wasteland that constitutes contemporary news coverage in the United States. An excerpt:
In those latter days of print supremacy, few foresaw the chaos generated today by “social media,” which is so often anti-social in effect. Add a twittering president who regards newspapers as “enemies of the people” and applies epithets worthy of a banana-republic caudillo to his critics : “the failing New York Times” and “the lying Washington Post.” Donald Trump is so prolific a source of fables and fantasies that the Post counts them in the hundreds. You needn’t be deeply schooled in psychology to identify his epithets as the projections of his own ingrained hostility to truth.
In a related article, Bella DePaulo attempts a taxonomy of Trumpian lies. A snippet:
Now let me tell you what I found when I tallied Trump’s cruel lies. Instead of adding up to 1 or 2 percent, as in my previous research, they accounted for 50 percent.
